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View all search resultsModi to visit China later this month
Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit opening on August 31 in Tianjin, his first visit to China since 2018, Ajit Doval said, in public comments at the start of a meeting with Beijing's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
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This handout photograph released by India's Press Information Bureau (PIB) on April 28, 2018 shows India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on along the East Lake, in Wuhan. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended informal meetings in China on April 28 with a promise to reduce border tensions after a high-altitude standoff in the Himalayas last year. (AFP/Handout)
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ndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later in August, his security chief said Tuesday during talks with Beijing's foreign minister in New Delhi.
Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit opening on August 31 in Tianjin, his first visit to China since 2018, Ajit Doval said, in public comments at the start of a meeting with Beijing's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
"Our prime minister will be visiting for the SCO summit," Doval said, speaking of "new energy" in diplomatic ties.
China "attaches great importance" to Modi's visit to the SCO summit, Wang said, according to an official translator.
"History and reality proves once again that a healthy and stable China-India relationship serves the fundamental and long term interests of both of our countries," Wang added.
Wang is due to meet Modi later on Tuesday.
The world's two most populous nations are intense rivals competing for influence across South Asia, and fought a deadly border clash in 2020.
India is also part of the Quad security alliance with the United States, Australia and Japan, which is seen as a counter to China.
But caught in global trade and geopolitical turbulence triggered by US President Donald Trump's tariff war, the countries have moved to mend ties.
During talks on Monday with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's foreign minister, Wang said the two countries should "view each other as partners and opportunities, rather than adversaries or threats".
Earlier on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Modi and briefed him on the outcomes of last week's summit in Alaska with President Trump, the Kremlin said.
"The leaders discussed the prospects for a long-term settlement of the crisis in Ukraine and agreed to continue the dialogue on this issue, as well as on other topical international issues," the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin also expressed his condolences to Modi after recent deadly flooding in India.
